Fall of the Byzantine Empire

  • 395

    The Empire is Split In Half

    After the death of Theodosius, The Byzantine Empire was split in half.
    The roman empire had divided in 395. There was an eastern and western empire. The Eastern was based on the contantinope. The western rome empire side was depenting on rome.That's when they was attack.
  • 526

    He ReConquer almost everything

    Justintian reconquers parts of the fallen western empire. Like africa and italy. He also put romes laws in one document. Contantinople is the most glorious city in europe. It also have 500,000 inhabitants in contantinople and Justinian was the emperor to use the name caesar.
  • 526

    Hagia Sophia is built

    Is a great architectural beauty and an important monument for Byzantine Empire. Once a church, later a mosque, is complited after only five years of construction.
  • 527

    Roman to Byzantine Empire

    While we refer to the Byzantine Empire, people in the Middle Ages never lost sight of the fact that this was the eastern half of the Roman Empire that had survived the barbarian invasions of the fifth century C.E.
  • 565

    Height o fthe Byzantine

    The Byzantine Empire was at it's height in 565 during Justinians reign. It included most of the lands surrounding the Mediterranian Sea
  • Jan 1, 610

    Heraclius becomes emperor

    Heraclius become the new emperor of the Byzantine Empire.The Governor equipped an expeditionary force and put his devout son, the blond and gray-eyed Heraclius, in command of it.
  • Jan 1, 667

    Byzantine Was Founded

    According to legand the ancient city of Byzanttium was founded by Megarian coloists.The Byzantine Empire fell due to Ottoman conquest and Civil War, the last Civil War causing the Empire to loose its ability to defend itself, the first Civil War loosing Justinian's Expansion.
  • Jan 1, 693

    Muslims attack Constantinople

    Muslims attack Constantinople by land and sea.The first Arab siege of Constantinople is perhaps the single most important military action in the history of Western Civilization. But it is a battle that little is known about.
  • Jan 1, 726

    Emperor Leo III used the icons

    Leo III, so-called founder of the "Isaurian" dynasty, was not of Asia Minor but was born ca. 680 in Germanicia a.k.a. Marash near Aleppo in the northern corner of the eastern Mediterranean. Leo III, Byzantine Emperor who was one of us, and so was his dynasty of emperors use the icons to represent their gods.